I am Bipolar and take 900 MG Lithium a day, in Feb when recovering from Surgery that put me out of work for 3 1/2 months my Doc put me on Wellbutrin 400MG a day, he won't put me on Zoloft ETC beacause the he is afraid of swings, prolem is Wellutrin works on a difrent part of the Brain and when I started taking it I started bugging out about stuff that happened in 1977 and many times a day I dream of going back and be 17 again and fix a few things, in Feb I turned off the TV and all I do at work and home is listen to music from that time. Anybody else have weird stuff with wellbutrin? It did help me get back to work, but I can't let this 1977 crap go. Thanks

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I'm on wellbutrin. Was on paxil cause I was mis-diagnosed as depressed. I don't know about the things you are talking about. I guess in some way that can happen as a side effect from taking it. I've always listened to music so I can't help you there. Tell your doctor that you think it's messing you up.

Thanks! Just came back from the Pychlogist and he thinks Im having a Mid-life crisis do to my almost dying last year, I have talked to my Shrink MD and he says Welbutrin does work on a diffrent part of the brain and could be causing it but thats the only AD he will prescribe to bipolars except for the old stuff like Deseral and the side effeects I had from that stuff is not worth it. I too have always listened to music but not obsesing over certain songs, great manifestions of OCD on top of everything else! LOL GOD BLESS ALL THE PEOPLE SUFFERING

I was on Welbutrin and I don't feel like it helped me at all, if anything, all of my energy was just put into being more edgy, frusterated and withdrawn. I think it's a yucky choice of medication.

i, myself was diagnosed bi-polar and told my psychiatrist that the celexa was working for me. they took me off celexa when i was diagnosed bi-polar and i went on lamictal and then i was put on nerontin and she switched me to wellbutrin. i dont know about you but i cried almost everyday i was on that medication. and it's supposedly an anit-depressant?

thats just my experience.

i stopped taking my meds a month ago without anyone concent and ive been doing better than i ever was on any meds.


you should get stabelized on a mood-stabelizer (ie. lithium, or lamicatal/nerontin which has little/rare side effects. just a rash that i didnt get but... ask.

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Thanks, Lithium works fine its the damn depression, he tried throw neutron in the works but it did nothing, I know what ya mean about Wellbutrin

I'm also bipolar and my doc said the same thing wellbutrin 9yrs ago that it was the least likely to cause a manic high. I'm 45 and been on almost every antidepressant except for the new ones. Welbutrin actually helped somewhat more than any of the others ever had, but it made me feel so angry and agressive I could barely control myself. It did cause one other very rare side effect that my doctor swore up and down wasnt' possible. It cause such vaginal dryness that I felt like I was wearing a sand paper tampon and pad. I
went off and back on the med 3 times with the same
results. I finally asked my phamicist is this was
possible, he looked it up and said yes but the chances
were only 1 in 1000. Since then trying different
antidepresants was simple, start with a small dose
and slowly increase, right now I using zoloft, sometimes I can notice a slight improvement other
times nothing at all. It's all trial and error what
helps one doesn't do nothing for another. Good Luck

I took Wellbutrin years ago without Lithium and it made me one nasty MF! I too have been on almost all anti-ds, Zoloft has helped me many times for up to 6 months but it does make me swing, seems what Im on now, 900 mg of Lithium, 400mg Wellbutrin and 3 mgs Xanax a day is the best I can hope for, Im still bumned out most days but can function, GOD help all of us suffering

I'm also taking Wellbutrin. I haven't been diagnosed with Bi-Polar but I'm going to talk to my doctor about it soon. I have noticed that Wellbutrin makes me have awful moodswings. Sometimes it feels as if someone takes over my body and it's not me who's getting this mad over things.

To me, it sounds like what you are having is flashbacks. I don't know much about them but I've heard somethings about it. Maybe you should tell your doc that you think you may be having flashbacks.

Hope I could help a little.

Larissa

Thanks you may be right